I agree that Mellel is probably not the best choice if you need a word-processor for reading Word files sent by fun-loving colleagues, or for typing a letter to your grandmother every Xmas.

Mellel can do that too. But it's not meant to do "only" that.

Mellel is a WP you'd use for professional writing (academic or other): it's elegant, very flexible, offers an efficient and ever-improving feature-set, it's stable and, above all, it's superbly crafted. If "enlightened" were an adjective that could be applied to a WP, Mellel should get it. The developers have a knack for presenting an approach to word processing that is logical, solid and designed to be used: you may have to spend a little time reading the manual every now and then, but it is worth every second of it.

Rarely do I have the feeling that I'm in command when I use a WP; with Mellel this is just what happens. Mellel allows a demanding user to be and to stay in control of his/her writing and output.

For me, this word processor is becoming the GUI-minded and user-friendly version of LaTeX: plenty of power and flexibility, less worries.